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REMUS TALES: SELECTED TEXT Readers of Harris' Uncle Remus folk tales might be tempted to assume, as we were early in our research for this project, that the author had some kind of secret racial egalitarian agenda. Many of the stories he relates through Remus are clearly subversive of American apartheid's hierarchies. They spring from a tradition with roots in Africa, and also in Northern and ...

The Creole Origins of African American Vernacular English: Evidence from copula absence John R. Rickford Stanford University (In African American English, ed. by Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh. London: Routledge, 1998) (Revised final version: 9/17/97) 8.0 Introduction Two issues loom large in discussions of the development of African American Vernacular English ...